Scoff if you will, but in the words of Election Night guru Dave Wasserman, “I’ve seen enough”: The Green Bay Packers are going to the Super Bowl. If it seems premature to claim that the shockingly young and inexperienced team (youngest average age — 25 — of any NFL team) can make the playoffs let alone the Super Bowl just because the Pack stunned the Chicago Bears on Soldier Field, that would be because it is premature. But so what?
After 30 years of excellence split between two Hall of Fame–caliber quarterbacks, Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre, the idea that Green Bay could hit with any success on a third is absurd. But Jordan Love, a Utah product who did his three years in the shadows of the aforementioned Rodgers, showed mettle in his debut earning a QB rating of 123.2 with three touchdowns and a final score of 38–20.
Bears fans, who only hours before had been chortling about how times were a-changin’ and that now was their time to put the hurt back on their northern neighbors, were reminded that the lot of a Chicago fan is suffering second only to that of the Lions fandom.
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The Packers shouldn’t have been able to find a possible third quarterback in a row to carry them to victory for years to come, but if they have, then there’s no reason to think they can’t face Charlie’s Jaguars for the Super Bowl. There’s a chance, and that’s all a fan can ask for after week one.